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Two New Official Windows 7 Themes Released

Martin Brinkmann — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:28:20 +0000

In time for Halloween and the autumn season are two new official themes for Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7. The themes are offered in themepack format, a new format introduced in Windows 7 that allows one-click installations of themes in the operating system.

Themepack files on the other hand are nothing more than archives that can be unpacked with a suitable unpacker, such as 7-Zip. The Windows 7 has published a guide on How To Use Windows 7 Themes On XP And Vista PCs.

Back to the two themes. The first themepack released is a lightning theme for Windows 7, perfectly suited for the autumn season.

The theme offers 14 different lightning wallpaper images taken in various locations of the world. You find screenshots and separate downloads of all wallpapers at Microsoft Releases Lightning Theme For Windows 7. The theme with a size of 5.7 Megabytes can be downloaded from this Microsoft server.

The second theme is a Halloween theme for for that one special day in October, the the night before All Hallows Day. This theme is more advanced, as it offers not only wallpaper images, but also sounds which most official themes do not offer. The theme offers 15 wallpaper images and 12 system sounds. This raises the size of the wallpaper themepack to more than 10 Megabytes.

You can take a look at all wallpaper images of the theme over at the Halloween Theme for Windows post, or download the theme right away from Microsoft.

Microsoft is pushing out new themes for Windows 7 on a regular basis, which is an effective strategy to offer new contents for the system. These kind of themes are quickly created, but provide lots of value for that.

If you are using Windows 7, have you downloaded new themes for the operating system? Let us know in the comments.

Top 10 Ideas For Halloween

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:55:22 +0000

Halloween – Hate it or love it. The time of the year when most adults and teens alike rejoice at the prospect of dressing like superman, the simpsons or south park characters. I tried to find costumes and accessories that could be made instead of just purchased, it does feel better to wear something that you created with your own hands instead of buying something that thousands of other people might wear as well; dont you think ?

I know that it is still a little bit early but if you want to create a costume or accessory on your own you need some time to plan and create – better start early than to late.

Let me start with some incredibly nice accessories:

How to make vampire bat decorations
Make a ghostly head float mid-air
DIY Ghosts
Spider Wiper Building How To (Big)
Pumpkin Patterns
Star Wars Lanterns
Spooky Glowing Water
Wolverine Claws

Costumes:

How to make a green lantern ring
Make a cardboard costume helmet
Make a Ghostbusters costume and accessories
Cardboard Crocodile costume
Tron Costume
Men in Black Costume
Rubiks Cube Costume
Giant Robots Costume
How to build a better bat costume
R2-D2 Baby Costume

Star Wars Stormtrooper Armor

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:54:31 +0000

Ever wondered where those guys in stormtrooper armor got their suits from ? Look no further, the Shepperton Design Studio is selling a complete Stormtropper armor for a very reasonable price. You can purchase the battle helmet for 299 British pounds and the suit (without helmet) for 999 British pounds. Both combined sell for 1299,95 pounds. The offers seems successful because currently all items are out of stock and will be available again in October.